About 8day.gg

What we do

We analyse online casinos from the perspective of players in specific regulated and offshore markets, publish rankings that we ourselves would use to decide where to deposit, and update our coverage quarterly as operators shift positions on the pillars that matter. We are not a comparison aggregator that scrapes public data and reformats it. Every ranking on 8day.gg reflects direct testing by our team, and the operators we recommend have been through the full five-pillar cycle: licence verification, deposit testing, bonus work-through, support timing, and withdrawal chronometry.

The site covers hub pages for each market plus specialist sub-pages for verticals that matter locally. For the UK we cover the GamStop landscape and offshore alternatives. For France we cover the ANJ regulatory context and offshore operators serving the market. For Thailand we cover FinnBet as our single recommended operator in a market where offshore access is the only realistic option for casino players. Each market receives coverage written in the local language, not translated from English.

Who we are

Three core editors are responsible for content on 8day.gg. Marta Kowalski is Editor-in-Chief and oversees editorial standards across all nine markets. Raymond Delacroix leads payments research and covers everything from Paylib and iDEAL to USDT on the Tron network. Aisha Halima, CCRP, leads responsible gambling and compliance work, verifying licences, evaluating dispute resolution mechanisms, and reviewing player-protection frameworks operator by operator.

Beyond the core team, we work with regional contributors who write local-language pages for Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, and Thailand. Machine translation is not used for published copy on 8day.gg. When Portuguese readers encounter our Portugal hub, they are reading text written by a native European Portuguese speaker who tested the operators described. When Danish readers encounter our Denmark hub, they are reading Danish written by a Danish speaker. The full team is introduced on our editorial team page.

What makes us different

Three commitments distinguish 8day.gg from most publications in the casino affiliate space, and we describe them in order of importance.

We test with real money. Every deposit-to-withdrawal cycle documented on 8day.gg was performed by our team using genuine payment methods, real personal identity documents, and real bonus terms accepted at face value. When our France crypto page states that USDT on Tron liquidates in 18 minutes at VipLuck, that figure came from Raymond running the transaction, timing it, and averaging across three baseline measurements. We do not accept operator-reported withdrawal times as accurate; we accept our own measurements.

Our rankings are shorter than most competitors' rankings. A casino must pass all five pillars in our test cycle to appear on a ranking page. Operators that pass four pillars but fail on the fifth do not appear, even if the failing pillar looks minor. This gives us rankings of typically four to seven operators per market, where most affiliate publications list twenty or more. We believe the shorter list serves readers better because the failing pillar is the one that hurts a reader when they are most vulnerable.

We disclose our commercial relationships. 8day.gg earns revenue through affiliate commissions when readers follow tracking links to operators we recommend. This model has structural risks that we address in our affiliate disclosure statement, and we maintain a documented wall between editorial and commercial functions to prevent commission data from affecting ranking decisions. The editorial team does not have access to commission figures. The commercial team does not have the ability to alter rankings. This separation is enforced structurally, not just declared as a policy preference.

Where we operate

Our coverage extends across nine markets grouped into three regions.

European regulated and offshore markets: the United Kingdom (GamStop landscape and offshore alternatives), Ireland (Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland framework), Sweden (Spelinspektionen licensed and unlicensed), Denmark (Spillemyndigheden and ROFUS), the Netherlands (KSA and CRUKS), France (ANJ regulatory context and offshore access), and Portugal (SRIJ framework).

Oceania: Australia, where the Interactive Gambling Act creates a specific offshore access framework for casino games.

Southeast Asia: Thailand, where the Gambling Act B.E. 2478 creates a strict prohibition landscape and where offshore access is the only realistic option for casino players. Our Thai coverage is written in Thai by native contributors.

Editorial values

Four values shape everything we publish. First, honesty about what we know and what we do not. When our test cycle produces a measurement, we publish the measurement, including when the result is disappointing for an operator we cover. Second, respect for readers' time. Our pages are structured so that a reader who wants a quick answer can get it from the ranking card, and a reader who wants the full analysis can get it from the long-form sections. We do not pad content to hit word count targets. Third, native-language voice. Danish idiom is different from Swedish idiom, and both are different from Norwegian idiom, and we work with contributors who write natively rather than translating from English. Fourth, independence from operator marketing. We do not run operator press releases as content, we do not accept ghost-written material, and we do not accept payment for editorial coverage.

How to reach us

Editorial questions, corrections, and story tips can be sent via our contact page. Our commercial team handles operator inquiries about affiliate relationships separately, and details are on the contact page. Press queries are welcome and typically receive a response within one business day.